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i asked them how many congressmen does maryland have? he did not know. what is the population? he finally explained himself. he said i don't really follow politics. it was like an answer he felt good about. [laughter] i thought, maybe that is okay, he may not like politics, but you can abstain from the irresponsibility of citizenship. i believe that we have a responsibility to take -- teach students about citizenship and politics does enter into that. how do we teach that? i was talking to a graduate student at the airport in chicago as we were waiting for i said, what do you study in political science? he said math, math, math. i knew it was quantitative these days, but i did not know how quantitative. the outsider perspective is -- i lectured on classes in political science but my major was history. i wonder if it is not time to swing the needle in the other direction and go back into policy? how do you do that? there is nothing new under the sun. one way we can teach how the system works is what law schools to all the time. that is case studies. they give real-life examples
i asked them how many congressmen does maryland have? he did not know. what is the population? he finally explained himself. he said i don't really follow politics. it was like an answer he felt good about. [laughter] i thought, maybe that is okay, he may not like politics, but you can abstain from the irresponsibility of citizenship. i believe that we have a responsibility to take -- teach students about citizenship and politics does enter into that. how do we teach that? i was talking to a...
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host: maryland, republican line. timothy, you are on the air. caller: i have been a republican all my life. due to this and and when that thing, which i am currently drawing unemployment and trying to get extended, it seems like it is only the democrats will lead to do anything for this country right now. all you hear is bp, oil, bp, will appear -- oil. compared to the 15 million in this country, i find it upsurge in past billions of dollars to go to the war in afghanistan. what is that the wing for the economy? i think i am going to start voting democratic. i just think it's real sad that all of these people are affected and here they are home the fourth of july and can't get anything done about this unemployment. i would definitely changed parties. it would not be for the independences, but would be for democrats. host: do you have republican friends who are on the employed and sang the same thing? caller: i live in a small county and i guarantee that just about all of my friends are republicans and this county is just about all republican and
host: maryland, republican line. timothy, you are on the air. caller: i have been a republican all my life. due to this and and when that thing, which i am currently drawing unemployment and trying to get extended, it seems like it is only the democrats will lead to do anything for this country right now. all you hear is bp, oil, bp, will appear -- oil. compared to the 15 million in this country, i find it upsurge in past billions of dollars to go to the war in afghanistan. what is that the...
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. >> reporter: popper who ran the maryland state high risk pool before he took his post at h.h.s., estimates as many as 400,000 americans may enroll in the new federally funded program. >> you talk directly to the radiation oncologist. >> reporter: 29 states in the district of columbia will run their own high-risk programs using their share of a $5 billion federal pool of money set aside. 21 others have opted out. in those states h.h.s. will run the pools through a third party administrator. to qualify applicants must be an american citizen, have been denied coverage by an insurer because of a medical condition, and be uninsured for at least six months. for carol, all of this can't come soon enough. right now he's stuck paying out of pocket for her medical care and prescription medication which she estimates totals $8,000 a year. >> for me to see my cardiologist again, i should have another echo cardio gram. that will be $1200. in the back of my mind there's always that fear, you know, if i have a twinge in my heart or one day i might be feeling a little lessener energetic, i'm thinking, oh,
. >> reporter: popper who ran the maryland state high risk pool before he took his post at h.h.s., estimates as many as 400,000 americans may enroll in the new federally funded program. >> you talk directly to the radiation oncologist. >> reporter: 29 states in the district of columbia will run their own high-risk programs using their share of a $5 billion federal pool of money set aside. 21 others have opted out. in those states h.h.s. will run the pools through a third party...
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representing the entire state, they have to understand -- you have a conservative estern maryland, liberal montgomery county and baltimore city and so on -- i think all ofhis is being reinforced and is coming on so fast, but the change in the media. it has become so targeted and fragmented that we tend to and reinforce only those views. we only have -- we do not have the nightly news that covers different perspectives. i think that is a real danger. i do not know what the solution is. that is where we turn to the academic community for research. one area where i would like to disagree, cordially, is the issue of federalism. i am not particularly alarmed about the role of federalism. i think the are times in which a very strong national government needs to be there. i think without the national government stepping up on the issue of civil rights, for example, i think without the federal government stepping up on the issue of national environmental policy, even now, without the national government stepping in in a big way to deal with some of these institutional financial issues and organiza
representing the entire state, they have to understand -- you have a conservative estern maryland, liberal montgomery county and baltimore city and so on -- i think all ofhis is being reinforced and is coming on so fast, but the change in the media. it has become so targeted and fragmented that we tend to and reinforce only those views. we only have -- we do not have the nightly news that covers different perspectives. i think that is a real danger. i do not know what the solution is. that is...
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host: maryland, republican line. the wake said. call -- go ahead. caller: i have one question. i noticed that mr. love is with the united states interagency council on homelessness. does that fall under any federal agency, or is he part of our group that president obama has called in as a czar group to help him? another questionn+ -- does this work duplicate some of the things that other agencies inn% existence are giving aid to? guest: that is a very good question. actually, the u.s. interagency council on homelessness is an indepeedent agency, comprised of 19 other federal agencies. the specific job the council is to coordinate the work of those agennies. as opposed to duplicating the efforts, our role is to make sure that every stick on the other federal agencies are coordinated, -- is to make sure that those efforts by the other federal agencies are coordinated. host: that may sound like a cz ar agency to some. guest: it may, but it came about in 1987 as part of the official response to homelessness. host: what is the operating budget? guest: a little over $2 million, for o
host: maryland, republican line. the wake said. call -- go ahead. caller: i have one question. i noticed that mr. love is with the united states interagency council on homelessness. does that fall under any federal agency, or is he part of our group that president obama has called in as a czar group to help him? another questionn+ -- does this work duplicate some of the things that other agencies inn% existence are giving aid to? guest: that is a very good question. actually, the u.s....